FINAL EXAM - PHYS1321 University Physics I (W.K.

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05/04/2012 Friday 11:00 AM 2:00 PM
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[Total points 200]

Answer all multiple choice questions

1. [5 points] Suppose A = BC, where A has the dimensions L/M and C has the dimensions L/T.
Then B has the dimension:
Answer: T/M

2. [5 points] Displacement can be obtained from:

Answer: The area under a velocity-time graph

3. [5 points] When a particle is in uniform circular motion, is there a force component tangent
to the particles path?
Answer: No

4. [5 points] Under which condition can the work done by a force be calculated by taking the
dot product of the force vector with the displacement vector?
Answer: Force is constant in both magnitude and direction

5. [5 points] If block falls from a tables edge, is the mechanical energy of the block-Earth
system conserved during the fall?
Answer: Yes

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6. [5 points] If the angular momentum of a particle is changing, does that mean that there must
be a net torque acting on the particle?
Answer: Yes

7. [5 points] How does the value of the gravitational acceleration g vary (in general) as you
move from the equator to the North Pole?
Answer: Increases

8. [5 points] In small-angle swinging of a simple pendulum, on what does the period of the
motion depend?
Answer: Pendulum length

9. [5 points] If we increase the frequency of transverse waves on a string, what happens to the
period of oscillation of any given point on the string?
Answer: Unchanged

10. [5 points] If a sound source moves away from a stationary detector, what does the Doppler
Effect do to the wavelength?
Answer: Increases it

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Answer all questions - Show necessary steps for partial credit

11. [25 points] [Chapter 3] Two vectors are given by

Find,
(a)

(b)

(c)

(d) Magnitudes of and and

(e) Angle between and

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12. [25 points] [Chapter 4] In Figure 1, a stone is projected at a cliff of height h with an initial
speed of 65.0 m/s directed at angle
40.0o above the horizontal. The stone strikes at A,
6.0s after launching. Find (a) the height h of the cliff, (b) the speed of the stone just before
impact at A, and (c) the maximum height H reached above the ground and also find the
horizontal distance travelled when the stone reaches the maximum height H.

Figure 1 Problem 12
(a) The height of the cliff h,

(b) The speed just before the impact,

(c) The maximum height

(

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Distance travelled (d) when the particle reaches the maximum,

At the maximum height velocity is zero, we have

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13. [25 points] [Chapter 5] Figure 2 shows a box of mass m2 = 1.0 kg on a frictionless plane
inclined at angle = 30. It is connected by a cord of negligible mass to a box of mass m1 =
3.0 kg on a horizontal frictionless surface. The pulley is frictionless and massless. (a) If the
magnitude of horizontal force is 2.3 N, what is the tension in the connecting cord? (b)
What is the largest value the magnitude of may have without the cord becoming slack?

Figure 2 Problem 13

The +x direction for m2 = 1.0 kg is downhill and the +x direction for m1 = 3.0 kg is rightward;
thus, they accelerate with the same sign.

(a) We apply Newtons second law to the x axis of each box:

m2 g sin T m2 a
F T m1a
Adding the two equations allows us to solve for the acceleration:
m2 g sin F
m1 m2
With F = 2.3 N and 30 , we have a = 1.8 m/s2. We plug back in and find T = 3.1 N.
a

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(b) We consider the critical case where the F has reached the max value, causing the tension to
vanish. The first of the equations in part (a) shows that a g sin 30 in this case; thus, a = 4.9
m/s2. This implies (along with T = 0 in the second equation in part (a)) that
F = (3.0 kg)(4.9 m/s2) = 14.7 N 15 N

in the critical case.

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14. [25 points] [Chapter 9] Two metal spheres suspended by vertical cords, initially just touch, as
shown in Figure 3. Sphere 1, with mass m1=30g, is pulled to the left to height h1= 8.0cm,
and then released from rest. After swinging down, it undergoes an elastic collision with
sphere 2, whose mass m2 = 75 g. What is the velocity v1f of sphere 1 just after the collision?

Figure 3 Problem 14

Lets take the lowest level as our reference level of zero gravitational potential energy. Then the
kinetic energy of sphere 1 at the lowest point must be equal to the gravitational potential energy
of the system when sphere 1 is at height h1. Thus,

Then we can re-write the equation for v1i

( )(

)(

Assume that the collision is elastic and the motion is one-dimensional and also assume that the
two sphere system is closed and isolated. That is the total linear momentum of the system is
conserved. Then we have,
(

The minus sign tells us that sphere 1 moves to the left just after the collision.

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15. [25 points] [Chapter 10] In Figure 4, block 1 has mass, m1 = 450 g, block 2 has mass m2 =

500 g, and the pulley, which is mounted on a horizontal axle with negligible friction, has
radius R = 5.00 cm. When released from rest, block 2 falls 75.0 cm in 5.00 s without the cord
slipping on the pulley. (a) What is the magnitude of the acceleration of the blocks? What are
(b) tension T2 and (c) tension T1? (d) What is the magnitude of the pulley's angular
acceleration? (e) What is its rotational inertia?

Figure 4 Problem 15

(a) We use constant acceleration kinematics. If down is taken to be positive and a is the
acceleration of the heavier block m2, then its coordinate is given by y 21 at 2 , so
(
(

Block 1 has an acceleration of 6.00 102 m/s2 upward.

(b) Newtons second law for block 2 is m2 g T2 m2 a , where m2 is its mass and T2 is the tension
force on the block. Thus,
(

)(

(c) Newtons second law for block 1 is m1 g T1 m1a, where T1 is the tension force on the
block. Thus,
(

)(

(d) Since the cord does not slip on the pulley, the tangential acceleration of a point on the rim of
the pulley must be the same as the acceleration of the blocks, so

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(e) The net torque acting on the pulley is (T2 T1 ) R . Equating this to

we solve for the

rotational inertia:
(

)(

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16. [25 points] [Chapter 12] In Figure 5, a uniform beam, of length L and mass m = 1.8kg, is at
rest on two scales. A uniform block, with mass M=2.7kg, is at rest on the beam, with its
center a distance L/4 from the beams left end. What do the scales read?

Figure 5 Problem 16

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The normal forces on the beam from the scales are on the left and on the right. The scale
readings that we want are equal to the magnitudes of those forces. The gravitational force

on the beam acts at the beams center of mass and is equal to . Similarly, the
gravitational force

on the block acts at the blocks center of mass and is equal to

The forces have no x components, thus Fnet, x = 0, for the y components gives us,

Let us choose a rotation axis through the left end of the beam. If a torque would cause an initially
stationary body to rotate clockwise about the rotation axis, the torque is negative. If the rotation
would be counterclockwise, the torque is positive. Finally, can write the torques in the form
,

where the moment arm is 0 for , l/4 for , l/2 for and L for .
We now can write the balancing equation (
( )( )

( )(
(

) as
)

( )(
)(

( )( )
(

)(

Now we have for Fl and substituting this result, we have

(
)
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17. [25 points] [Chapter 14] The intake in Figure 6 has cross-sectional area of 0.74 m2 and water
flow at 0.40 m/s. At the outlet, distance D = 180 m below the in-take, the cross-sectional area
is smaller than at the intake and the water flows out at 9.5 m/s into equipment. What is the
pressure difference between inlet and outlet? (Density of water 1000 kg/m3)

Figure 6 Problem 17

We use Bernoullis equation:

p2 pi gD

1
v12 v22
2

where r = 1000 kg/m3, D = 180 m, v1 = 0.40 m/s, and v2 = 9.5 m/s.

Therefore, we find

p = 1.7 x 106 Pa, or 1.7 MPa.

The SI unit for pressure is the Pascal (Pa) and is equivalent to N/m2.

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